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BGE’s Smart Energy Pricing The National Town Meeting on Demand Response and Smart Grid

BGE’s Smart Energy Pricing The National Town Meeting on Demand Response and Smart Grid. Cheryl Hindes Director -- Load Analysis and Settlement July 14, 2009. BGE’s 2008 Smart Energy Pricing (SEP) Pilot featured Peak Time Rebate and Critical Peak Pricing.

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BGE’s Smart Energy Pricing The National Town Meeting on Demand Response and Smart Grid

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  1. BGE’s Smart Energy PricingThe National Town Meeting on Demand Response and Smart Grid Cheryl Hindes Director -- Load Analysis and Settlement July 14, 2009

  2. BGE’s 2008 Smart Energy Pricing (SEP) Pilot featured Peak Time Rebate and Critical Peak Pricing • Pilot of 1,375 residential customers in Summer 2008: 1,021 participants, 354 control group • Pilot included Dynamic Peak Pricing (DPP or CPP) and Peak Time Rebate (PTR) • Customers were given day ahead notification of critical peak event by their choice of methods • E-mail, telephone call, text message (up to 5 of each) • Certain had the Ambient Energy Orb, signaling prices by color code and pulsing light • Sample of customers had ‘enabling technology’ (ET = smart A/C switch) • Very favorable customer satisfaction results confirm customers’ interest • Key findings of impact assessment conducted by The Brattle Group: • Price elasticities for DPP and PTR were not statistically different • On average customers save • 22 – 37% at peak conditions* (*PJM definition: hour ending 17:00 with WTHI of 83.1) • 18 – 33% during 50 critical hours

  3. Dynamic Peak Pricing: Weekdays (excluding Holidays) $1.30 Pilot Pricing All – in Rate* Critical $1.30425 Peak $0.14425 Off-Peak $0.09425 * Includes generation, transmission and delivery $0.14 $0.09

  4. Peak Time Rebate: Weekdays (excluding Holidays) • A Mirror Image of the DPP Rate • Schedule R summer rates are $0.14 / kWh for all summer hours • Up to 12 critical peak days will be called by 6 p.m. the prior day • Customers who use less during the critical period (2 – 7 p.m.) on any critical peak day will receive a rebate. Two levels being tested: • $1.75/kWh • $1.16/kWh

  5. Smart Energy Pricing Pilot Design BGE’s SEP Pilot: 1,300 accounts, a statistically significant sample

  6. Summer 2008 PilotSmart Energy Pricing - Peak Demand Reductions * DPP Tariff No Tech Orb & Switch No Tech Orb Only Orb & Switch No Tech Orb Only Orb & Switch Orb & Switch No Tech Orb Only Orb & Switch Low Rebate$1.16 / kWh High Rebate$1.75 / kWh *Peak demand reductions are defined for HE 17:00 for THI of 83.1 degrees

  7. Summer 2008 Pilot Average Energy Savings over Critical Events ** DPP Tariff No Tech Orb & Switch No Tech Orb Only Orb & Switch No Tech Orb Only Orb & Switch Low Rebate$1.16 / kWh High Rebate$1.75 / kWh ** Critical events are the first 10 (of 12) called events during 2008 pilot from HE15:00 to HE19:00

  8. Customers Were Satisfied with Smart Energy Pricing! On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is "Very Dissatisfied" and 5 is "Very Satisfied", please rate your overall satisfaction with the pilot program. (77% response rate)

  9. Customers Think Smart Energy Pricing Should be the Standard During your pilot participation, you experienced a variable rate program where energy used during critical peak periods cost more than energy use during other times. Customers saved money by using energy during non-critical peak periods. Do you think this pricing format should be standard for all BGE customers? (Select one option) 97% would like to return to the same pricing structure in 2009

  10. PTR More Favorable than DPP, Overall 93% Satisfied On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is "Very Dissatisfied" and 5 is "Very Satisfied", please rate your overall satisfaction with the pilot program. (77% response rate)

  11. Peak Time Rebate Widely Favored • BGE held 6 focus groups in 2007 focused on CPP • Our customers said they need help in understanding their usage and how they could save • Our customers said CPP could not be a default rate • More customers were very satisfied with PTR (66%) than with CPP (48%) • MD PSC and Office of People’s Counsel questioned the appropriateness of CPP as default and favored PTR instead • Most (81%) PTR participants think PTR should be standard (default) pricing DOE’s FOA notes its interest in CPP and RTP BGE’s experience suggests adding PTR to the mix

  12. Appendix

  13. Summer 2008 Pilot Summary of The Brattle Group Analysis

  14. June 2008 Despite Unseasonably Mild Weather, BGE called 12 Smart Energy Pricing Events in 2008 July 2008 High Temp 96 90 92 92 92 89 91 August 2008 September 2008 92 92 92 73 72 14

  15. Smart Energy Pricing Continues in 2009 • Small commercial customers added • Assessing the level of savings as compared to the Summer of 2008 for returning residential customer • Added Smart Thermostats (in addition to Smart Switches) • Added Twitter • Tips, notifications, reminders, “way to go!” • Posted 20 Tweets in June • Simulating “PJM Emergency Events” • Notification 30 – 60 minutes prior to event

  16. BGE Service Territory

  17. BGE’s Business at a Glance • Electric T&D • delivers through 2,300 square miles of territory • circuit miles: • 21,819 of distribution(< 34.5 kV) • 1,297 of transmission( > 115 kV) • Gas Distribution • stores and delivers gas • two peak shaving plants • nine gate stations • 5,870 miles of gas main

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